Visitors from Down the Street

VISITORS FROM DOWN THE STREET
Series	Crusade
Season	Season 1
Episode	12
Production Number	104
First Aired	25 August 1999
Production Credits
Written By	J. Michael Straczynski
Directed By	Jerry Apoian
Executive Producer	Douglas Netter & J. Michael Straczynski
Producer	John Copeland
Production Designer	John Iacovelli
Director of Photography	Frederick V. Murphy II
Editor	Jeff Hodge, Michael B. Hoggan & Skip Robinson
Music By	Evan H. Chen
Chronology
Story Date	May 13th - 14th, 2267
Chronological Order
Preceded by	Racing the Night
Followed by	Each Night I Dream of Home
Broadcast Order
Preceded by	The Needs of Earth
Followed by	Each Night I Dream of Home

Visitors from Down the Street is an episode from the TV Series Crusade which is a spin off from Babylon 5.

"Who Are You? Matthew Gideon, Captain. Attached to the Earth Alliance Starship Excalibur. What do you want? To find a cure to the Drakh plague before it wipes out all life on earth. Where Are You Going? Anywhere I Have To. Who do you serve and who do you trust? Who do you serve and who do you trust?"

– Galen Questioning Captain Gideon

Starring

Regular Cast

• Gary Cole as Captain Matthew Gideon
• Tracy Scoggins as Captain Elizabeth Lochley (Credit Only)
• Daniel Dae Kim as Lieutenant John Matheson
• David Allen Brooks as Max Eilerson (Credit Only)
• Peter Woodward as Galen (Credit Only)
• Marjean Holden as Dr. Sarah Chambers (Credit Only)
• Carrie Dobro as Dureena Nafeel (Credit Only)

Guest Starring

• Josh Clark as Kendarr
• Francoise Robertson as Lyssa
• Harry Van Gorkum as Durkani

Co-Starring

• Robert Caso as Robert Conner
• Sandra Gonzalez as Maintenance #2
• Eric Whitmore as Security #1
• Camila Griggs as Security #2

Summary

Events take a lighthearted turn in this The X-Files Parody. Excalibur takes aboard a pair of paranoid aliens convinced that humans interfered with their planet for decades and that their government conspired to hide the facts.  Things get stranger when one of their leaders shows up and reveals that his government is intentionally faking alien intervention to pacify a naturally rebellious population.

Episode Chronology

13 episodes of crusade were produced before TNT cancelled the series. According to posts by J. Michael Straczynski, which are archived on jmsnews.com, TNT broadcast the episodes out of the intended sequence. The order of the episodes was then revised when they were re-broadcasted on the Sci-Fi channel; the Sci-Fi channel actually contacted Straczynski and asked which order he would prefer the episodes were broadcast. A third order was formally endorsed by Straczynski as the "true" chronological sequence of events for the filmed episode, as it appeared in The Babylon 5 Historical Database as published in Across Time and Space: The Chronologies of Babylon 5. This particular ordering supersedes Straczynski's own "preferred" sequence from a strictly chronological and causal standpoint. The original broadcast order as set by TNT was used for the DVD releases.

Revised Broadcast Order

Using the Revised Broadcast Order Visitors from Down the Street is episode 5 of 13.

Preceded by:	Crusade episodes		Followed by:
"The Long Road"		"The Well of Forever"

DVD Release

This Episode along with the other 12 from the series has been released on DVD with some limited Special Features. For more information see:

• Crusade DVD

External Links

• Visitors from Down the Street at the Internet Movie Database
• Episode guide page for Visitors from Down the Street at the Lurker's Guide